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Re: How Many Credit Cards Do You Have?
« Reply #2275 on: June 15, 2012, 08:48:39 AM »
Lucky is my new favorite blogger.  I used to not like him just because he was pals with stupid Gary.  Now I don't care.

yeah. his post today about hotel website photos was great. he kind of reminds me of fff in the way that he just enjoys it all so much. just all of it. almost child like enthusiasm. then you have the points giant and his dumbass copy editor eric hammering out sales ads for the park hyatt in tokyo and refusing to link the best cc sign ups because they don't get $.

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Re: How Many Credit Cards Do You Have?
« Reply #2276 on: June 15, 2012, 08:50:34 AM »
Thoughts on rumblings about a possible US Air/AA merger?  Could be ridiculous for point hoarders if both continue to allow churning up to the point they merge the programs.  I have read it took United/Continental about 2 years to get their programs merged.  Could end up with a million miles in that timeframe between the wife and I.  Easy around the world business class tix.  US Air's CEO is really talking like they want to get this crap done:

http://atwonline.com/airline-finance-data/news/us-airways-ceo-standalone-american-suffers-structural-weakness-0614

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Re: How Many Credit Cards Do You Have?
« Reply #2277 on: June 15, 2012, 08:50:48 AM »
good lucky/fff comparo

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Re: How Many Credit Cards Do You Have?
« Reply #2278 on: June 15, 2012, 08:59:45 AM »
Thoughts on rumblings about a possible US Air/AA merger?  Could be ridiculous for point hoarders if both continue to allow churning up to the point they merge the programs.  I have read it took United/Continental about 2 years to get their programs merged.  Could end up with a million miles in that timeframe between the wife and I.  Easy around the world business class tix.  US Air's CEO is really talking like they want to get this crap done:

http://atwonline.com/airline-finance-data/news/us-airways-ceo-standalone-american-suffers-structural-weakness-0614

i'll contact our secret goEMAW AA source right now and ask what he knows.

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Re: How Many Credit Cards Do You Have?
« Reply #2279 on: June 15, 2012, 10:42:19 AM »
I love flying AA

never even heard of these US Airways losers
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Re: How Many Credit Cards Do You Have?
« Reply #2280 on: June 15, 2012, 10:44:37 AM »
I love flying AA

never even heard of these US Airways losers

USA actually flys their own birds out of Omaha.  Most of our AA flights are American Eagle or codeshares. 

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Re: How Many Credit Cards Do You Have?
« Reply #2281 on: June 15, 2012, 10:50:52 AM »
I love flying AA

never even heard of these US Airways losers

USA actually flys their own birds out of Omaha.  Most of our AA flights are American Eagle or codeshares.

I've flown the eagle flights out of Manhattan... tiny planes but not bad.  The MD-80 on the other hand  :love:
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Re: How Many Credit Cards Do You Have?
« Reply #2282 on: June 15, 2012, 10:54:50 AM »
I love flying AA

never even heard of these US Airways losers

USA actually flys their own birds out of Omaha.  Most of our AA flights are American Eagle or codeshares.

I've flown the eagle flights out of Manhattan... tiny planes but not bad.  The MD-80 on the other hand  :love:


the md80s are junk. refer to this usa today piece with elite quotes from elite AA employees.

http://www.usatoday.com/travel/flights/2009-04-13-aa-new-737_N.htm

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Re: How Many Credit Cards Do You Have?
« Reply #2283 on: June 15, 2012, 10:59:36 AM »
I love flying AA

never even heard of these US Airways losers

USA actually flys their own birds out of Omaha.  Most of our AA flights are American Eagle or codeshares.

I've flown the eagle flights out of Manhattan... tiny planes but not bad.  The MD-80 on the other hand  :love:


the md80s are junk. refer to this usa today piece with elite quotes from elite AA employees.

http://www.usatoday.com/travel/flights/2009-04-13-aa-new-737_N.htm

you're junk
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Re: How Many Credit Cards Do You Have?
« Reply #2284 on: June 15, 2012, 11:00:17 AM »
fwiw I do like the 737 better and am glad they're switching

I just think the md-80 looks cool
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Re: How Many Credit Cards Do You Have?
« Reply #2285 on: June 15, 2012, 11:00:46 AM »
yeah, MD80s are pieces of crap made up of smaller pieces of crap

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Re: How Many Credit Cards Do You Have?
« Reply #2286 on: June 15, 2012, 11:02:00 AM »
you guys are always so mean to me in this thread

one of these days I'll just leave, and you'll say, where is goodforanother?  and by then it'll be too late, I'll be gone forever
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Re: How Many Credit Cards Do You Have?
« Reply #2287 on: June 15, 2012, 11:20:06 AM »
hey GFA want to hear a hilarious joke.... Waitress- "will you be paying cash or put it on a card for these beers?" rd-"ummm cash"


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Re: How Many Credit Cards Do You Have?
« Reply #2288 on: June 15, 2012, 11:21:46 AM »
hey GFA want to hear a hilarious joke.... Waitress- "will you be paying cash or put it on a card for these beers?" rd-"ummm cash"

i happened (happened) to have cash in my wallet and wanted to get rid of it. what was i supposed to do, just throw it in the trashcan? that wouldn't have made a lot of sense.

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Re: How Many Credit Cards Do You Have?
« Reply #2289 on: June 15, 2012, 11:22:29 AM »
rick, you would have gotten double UR points for that purchase.  twice as many as normal. 

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Re: How Many Credit Cards Do You Have?
« Reply #2290 on: June 15, 2012, 11:25:14 AM »
i happened (happened) to have cash in my wallet and wanted to get rid of it. what was i supposed to do, just throw it in the trashcan?

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Re: How Many Credit Cards Do You Have?
« Reply #2291 on: June 15, 2012, 11:26:34 AM »
rick, you would have gotten double UR points for that purchase.  twice as many as normal.

why would i need 40 ur points though? i take 40 ur points and light them on fire just to watch them burn like five or six times a day. i mean double nothing is still nothing, ya know.  :zzz:

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Re: How Many Credit Cards Do You Have?
« Reply #2292 on: June 15, 2012, 11:28:07 AM »
40 UR points is enough for .18% of a night at the Park Hyatt Tokyo

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Re: How Many Credit Cards Do You Have?
« Reply #2293 on: June 15, 2012, 11:31:38 AM »
40 UR points is enough for .18% of a night at the Park Hyatt Tokyo

guess i'm .36% further away from a free park hyatt tokyo night then. have burned two stacks of 40 ur reward points already today just out of boredom and have three more stacks sitting on my desk that i plan on burning after lunch.

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Re: How Many Credit Cards Do You Have?
« Reply #2294 on: June 15, 2012, 11:38:29 AM »
So, if a night at the Park Hyatt Paris goes for $1,000 a night you are buring $1.80 with each stack of 40. 

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Re: How Many Credit Cards Do You Have?
« Reply #2295 on: June 15, 2012, 11:52:36 AM »
hey GFA want to hear a hilarious joke.... Waitress- "will you be paying cash or put it on a card for these beers?" rd-"ummm cash"

haha, dumbass  :lol:
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Re: How Many Credit Cards Do You Have?
« Reply #2296 on: June 15, 2012, 01:12:24 PM »
I just gave everybody in the office ten ur points. we're going to take ten minutes folding them into different paper airplanes styles and then open our seventh floor window and see who can get their ur point to fly the furthest.

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Re: Re: How Many Credit Cards Do You Have?
« Reply #2297 on: June 15, 2012, 01:25:08 PM »
Just had mrs. dave sign up for both personal 50k AA cards and I got the business AA 50k card.  150k here we come.  going to try churning two more US Air cards in a month along with a few cards to get Hilton points.

also, my short, medium and long term goal is to be churning the ever loving crap out of every hhonor card possible for the forseeable future. have you looked at any of their all inclusives? they have a couple in costa rica that look pretty average that you can get for 50-70k per night but there is one in jamaica (rose hall) that is actually above average that you can get for 60k. if you are gold or have the amex card then you get like 20% of tha,t so the rose hall place would be like 50k or less i think. i think i could easily get to somewhere between 500k and 1mil hhonors within the year and then just go spend a couple of weeks there or whatever. was looking at the cost for two people to stay there over new years this year and it was like $600/night. also, did someone say lazy river?




Didn't even know Hilton had all inclusives, I'm gonna piggy back on your churning hhonors cards goal rd
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Re: Re: How Many Credit Cards Do You Have?
« Reply #2298 on: June 15, 2012, 01:30:14 PM »
Lucky is my new favorite blogger.  I used to not like him just because he was pals with stupid Gary.  Now I don't care.

What's lucky's blog? My 2 go to blogs are million mile secrets (fav), the points guy (hate his, "let me review this sweet hotel" posts though), also of course this thread
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How Many Credit Cards Do You Have?
« Reply #2299 on: June 15, 2012, 01:42:02 PM »
I don't even read millionmilesecrets anymore. Daraius hasn't had a post that wasn't rehashing the same stuff or interviewing someone forever. Love him but not worth my time anymore. Lucky is One Mile at a Time iirc.